2. The Business Growth Agenda
Progress Reports
• Export Markets
• Innovation
• Skilled and Safe Workplaces
• Infrastructure
• Natural Resources
• Capital Markets

3. The goal
Reduce the real interest rate premium on New
Zealand debt compared to US and Australian
equivalents.

4. Better regulation to lift
confidence in our financial
markets
Smarter regulation that encourages greater
capital market activity.

5. Strengthening public equity
markets
Larger and more active public capital markets
that support business growth.

6. Supporting early-stage and
growth capital markets
Early-stage and high-growth businesses can
access the risk-capital they need to grow.

7. Improving the management of
Crown capital
Ensuring that the Government’s assets and
liabilities are well-managed and that the level of
risk is appropriate.

8. Attracting foreign investment
Attracting foreign investment into productive
investments that support jobs and higher
incomes.

9. Encouraging efficient private
capital markets
Policy and regulatory settings that support
private capital being used in the most
productive way.

10. Lifting our national saving rate
Lifting national savings to reduce overseas debt
and deepen our capital markets so businesses
can access the funds they need to grow.